We’ve made few small changes around here that should lead to a few bigger changes. The first is you might notice the familiar Wordpress structure in our URL’s. We finally moved away from an old custom .NET blog to the blog heard ’round the world – Wordpress. The old blog software was clumsy and difficult to add new posts. Adding images was a chore, and when using the system it just felt broken. No one likes using broken things. Blogging now is infinitely easier, thus for a person like myself, I’m now infinitely happier to write. There’s been plenty of things we wanted to share, and few freebies to give away. Now we can finally do so.
The second is the domain is slightly different. We obliterated the old ‘dashes’. Our official domain is now ‘applestooranges.com’ and not ‘apples-to-oranges.com’. We decided to buy the domain from a legal squatter, and paid a pretty penny to do so. But as anyone in the office can attest to, It felt pretty dumb having to explain there were dashes in-between the words. “That’s dash ‘to’ dash oranges. No a real dash. The word ‘to’, not the number. Tee ooh. Yes, then a dash.” (snicker). Well worth the money and it saves our clients some confusion.
So we now have the ability to create posts correctly, a few new hires on board, a few freebies waiting in the wings, and a load of new portfolio items to share. Things should be moving quickly. And if you haven’t done so already, Matt and Wordpress are hosting a wordpress user conference. So check it out.
Note: Wordpress also fixed our broken RSS feed. So to those who informed us it was broken, I thank you.
Published on July 17, 2006
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7 Responses to “Hello Wordpress, Goodbye .NET”
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Matthew Anderson on July 17th, 2006
Congratulations, Ryan. Though few and far between, I have always enjoyed your articles. Kudos to you for turning up the frequency. Good luck!
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Dharmesh on July 17th, 2006
contrats ryan,
FYI, Check it out link has extra http//
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Ben Pujji on July 17th, 2006
Wicked - looking forward to hearing more about what you’ve been up to
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Mau on August 25th, 2006
Wordpress Rocks! Not only you can manage your blog single-handed, but it can also be a very powerful content management system.
Pages, navigation, you name it. Very cool, and easy
Congratulations on the move.
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Ryan Nichols on August 26th, 2006
Thanks mathew!
Mau, yes I think it worked out well in the end. In all honesty though, Wordpress was really difficult for me. It was mostly due to the fact our homepage is not a blog page. It took some plugins to get it all to work correctly.
Also the coding conventions were a little dissapointing. A lot of the functions forced you to use markup rather than just giving me the data and allowing me to format it my own way. I was really suprised how often they did that.
Overall I’m used to it now, so our next redesign will go more smoothly.
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Sherman Boyd on September 25th, 2006
I like the design, but the site is broken in Firefox. You are also getting a Wordpress error. Normally I’d notify you by email, but your contact page is one of those that doesn’t seem to work under Firefox.
Anyway I’d like to talk to you about improving my website. Email me:
sherman AT twocell DOT com
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adrian on October 29th, 2006
Which .net blog product u have used?